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July ’26| (✱ See below.)

June ’26| Emily Brontë books are now available, her complete poems. See the books section.

Dec ’25| The Clock Tower Part One: The Detectives FREE EBOOK is now available for download from Pagemaster.ca, Apple iBooks, Kobo (Indigo.ca), and Google Play Books, or you can download it right here.

Nov ’25| John McCrae books are now available for order at the PageMaster store. Enjoy a fine reproduction of a Canadian literary classic, just in time to remember. Tap here, or see the books section. Or visit your local little library, you might get lucky : )

Oct ’25| Don’t miss the Hamlet-oween Specials on YouTube.

Sept ’25| The Clock Tower, will be released around Christmas time. It is a literary adventure set in the golden age of traveling circus. The first half, Part One: The Detectives, will be released simultaneously as a FREE EBOOK! That’s right, you’ll be free to roam the circus grounds with my little girls while they solve the mystery of the chess-player. So there is no need to bring out your pocket book just yet, and you won’t ever hear me shouting: “Buy my book!” But you might hear me say, from time to time: FREE EBOOK! And for Part Two: The Big Show, well… you’ll need a ticket to get into the big show!

(July ’26| ✱ I thought I would sign off here with some LITERARY THEORY FOR YOUNGSTERS. If you want to get serious about writing, you need to find yourself two books. And I mean books, don’t waste your time with the internet, it’s full of bad information. The first book you need to find is a good dictionary. There are two kinds of dictionaries, good ones, and bad ones. A good dictionary will give you the meaning of a word, its several definitions, examples of its usage, and a list of close synonyms.  Sometimes you even get a bit of history. A bad dictionary will simply refer you to another word, which you then need to look up, and that word will refer you to another word, and so on. If you have looked up several words, and you still don’t understand the meaning of the the first word you wanted to look up, it is a bad dictionary, and should be dumped in the nearest toilet immediately. Find a good dictionary and keep it handy when you do your readings. My go-to is an Oxford dictionary printed in 1984. Pre-internet. Whenever you come across a word in your readings that you do not FULLY understand, look it up. I recommend copying out the full definition. You don’t have to do this, you can just breeze over the definitions and learn words that way, but the best way to really take it all in is to copy it all down by hand. As you learn the new words from the definitions you find in your dictionary, you will come across other words that you don’t fully understand, and I recommend looking up all of them, and copying them all down. Lose yourself in a search for new words. Do this diligently and often. This is the best way to build a strong and vibrant vocabulary. The second book you need to find is a copy of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White. Again, don’t rely on digital stuff, find a paperback copy, they are everywhere used books can be found, you can very likely find a copy for only a few dollars, if not free. Read Strunk’s rules. You can read them over quickly the first time, but if you really want to get serious about writing, you should carefully read each and every one of Strunk’s rules, and really do your best to understand them, and work with them as you write. This is the best way to become proficient with English grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, etc. These are the skills a writer needs to hone. Now, some of it may be a bit advanced, depending on your age, but even if you don’t understand all of Strunk’s terms, like “possessive conjunction” or “independent clause” just read them through and do the best you can, and write down any of the terms you need to look into. Then, when your English teacher is lecturing your class, and says: “Are there any questions?” you can raise your hand and ask: “What is a parenthetic expression?” or “What is a participial phrase?” And you will see your teacher make a puzzled face, or possibly even squirm. If you continue to ask questions along these lines, a good English teacher will eventually say something like: “You’ve been reading Strunk and White, haven’t you!? You studious little child! How wonderful!”

Strunk’s rules may take years to fully grasp, don’t be in a rush, just read them over, learn what you can from him, and keep that book handy. While you are learning Strunk’s rules, it is important to always keep in mind the unwritten rule of the English language, otherwise known as the Orwellian rule, as it was Orwell who wrote it down: every grammatical rule in the English language can be broken.

As a creative writer, it is not necessary to adhere to the rules, but it is good to know them.

Have fun!)

(No AI was used to write or research The Clock Tower.  All of my writings are produced using 100% pure literary magic.  My methods will never include AI.)